Water-motor



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I-I. E. TRUMBLE.

WATER MOTOR.- No. 394,740., Patented. Deo. 18, 1888.

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HENRY E. TRUMBLE, OF KALAMAZCO, MICHIGAN.

WATER- MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 894,740, dated December 18, 1888.

Application led August 17, 1888. Serial No. 283,000. (No model.)

To all whom t muy concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY E. TRUMBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalamazoo, county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Vater- Motor, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to another motor invented by me and disclosed in an application liled March 27, 1888, Serial No. 268,663, in which application a jointed piston was shown pivoted to a support or in a fiume, and

adapted to be oscillated bythe flowing water,

and by that means operate a crank-shaft at its pivoted end.

The object of the present invention is to construct a motor on asimilar principle provided with automatic exhaust-valves, as below described.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure l is the motor with one wall removed and parts in section on line l l in Fig. et; Fig. 2, a section on line 2 2 in Fig. l,looking from a point below, Fig. 3, a section on line 2S 3, looking from a point at the lett; Fig. 4, a view of the slide in Fig. l,with the part Din cross-section near its lower end; Fig. 5, an edge view of Fig. l; and Fig. 6 is an enlarged perspective of a part pointed out by like letters in Fig. l.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, B is a Hume through which the water or any other suitable element of power flows in the direction from the upper to the lower ends in Fig. l. The piston is composed of two parts, D D ,hinged together end to end. The other end of part l) is rigidly attached to a slide, C, and stands and moves in a position parallel with the line`o'f the vliowing water. The other end of the part D is left free near the induction-port ot' the flume. (See upper end, Fig. l.)

The slide C has bearings in the flume transversely to the plane ot' the piston. Tater entering the induction-port at the left of the piston in Fig. l will carry the piston and slide over to the right side of the iiume,where they will occupy a position in relation to the flume like the one shown at the left side in Fig. l. In this figure the piston and slide have just reached the position they occupy. The righthand gate or valve, d, hinged to the slide C, and adapted to close one of two exhaust-ports in said slide, has been released from contact with the right-hand roller, U, and the water is supposed to be exhausting through this open port. As soon as this exhausting of water begins, the free end of part D of the piston is tilted over by the action of the water to the place it occupies in Fig. l, against the right wall of the flume B, near the induction-port, thus shutting the iiow of water from the right side of the piston and directing its course into the left of the fiume, when, as before stated, the piston and slide will be carried to the right. As soon as the open valve a contacts with its roller U, it will close, and during the right-hand movement of the slide the other valve d (closed in Fig. l) will be released and the water at the left of the piston will eX- haust, and the free end ot' the piston will tilt over against the left wall of the flume. Thus the action continues automatically by the action of the water, the piston moving from one side of the fiume to the other, the oscillating free end forming a cut-off, and the slide reciprocating in the slide bearings. Power might be transmitted by connecting other machinery with the slide C, or by means of a crank-shaft, b, bearing a crank, F, to which crank a connecting-rod is attached. (See P, Fig. 2.

. The crank-shaft has bearings in the flume B, Figs. l, 2, and 3, and radiating from it is a lever, A, the free end of which is loosely connected with the slide C by being entered between the lugs xx of slide C, Figs. l, 3, and 5. Thus when the slide reciprocates, the leverA of the crank-shaft d oscillates, giving motion to the crank F. During the action the end ot' the lever A ot' course is drawn partly out and in the space between the lugs ce m, which is equivalent to a lengthening and shortening o'f said lever.

In some instances the exhaust-valves d will be released too soon. To provide for this I employ a trip-lever, c, pivoted to the crank-lever A, Fig. l, and a sliding-plate, of', having projections S S at an angle to said plate, and in use parallel to and contacting with the slide C, Figs. l, 3, and 6. One end of the trip-lever c is coupled with the slot of plate fr in like inanner as the end of lever A in the slot of the slide C, Figs. l, 2, and 3. During the operation one ofthe projectionsS catches over the edge of one of th e valves o, 'fi rst one and then the other. The free end ot the trip-lever e eoines in contact 'with a lug, e, of the wall of the flume, Figs. l and 2, and this trips the sliding;I plate l' and releases the valve (l. InV Fig. the right-hand valve has ,inst been released and as soon as the parts change their positions the end ot lever c will eontaet with the other stud e and release the other door or valve d; but l do not limit the invention lo this inode ot' holding;` and releasing' the valves (l, for it will doubtless onlyv be eontingentl)Y needed. Neither do I wish to limit the maehine to the use as a motor, for the flume with the piston may be employed in a meter.

The motor need not employ the slide (l, having, exhaust-ports and valves; but it is desirable in order to gain power and eeonomize in the use ot' water.

l'l'avingthns deserihedmy invenl ion, whatl claim is l. 'lhe Combination oli' the tlnme, thetransverse exhanslwport slide having;l the automatie exhaust-valves and the jointed piston rigidlyv attached at one end to the slide and at right angles thereto in the plane ot' the Howing' stream, substantially as set forth.

The combination ot' the flume, the exhansieport slide transversely in the Yll lime, the jointed piston at rig-ht angles to the slide, aerank-shalt, anda radial arm attaehed to the shat't at one end and loosely eonneeted with the slide at the other end, substai'ltall v as set forth.

The eombination ol' a suitable tlume,tl1e jointed piston, a slide havingI the exhaustports, valves hinged in said ports, and the rollers with which the valves come in Contact to elose them, said piston being,1 in the plane oi' the flowing element ot power through the fiume and the slide transversely thereto, su bstantially as set forth.

l. The Combination of a suital'ile Hume, a slide having the exhaust-ports, valves in said ptn-ts, ille rollers with which the 'valves come in eontaet to elosethem, the jointed piston, and a erank-shalt provided with a radial arm, the tree end of said arm being' attached to the slide, imparting' an oscillatingl movement to the arm b v the reeiproeatinl movement ot' the slide, said piston and slide being` at right angles to each other in the tlnme, with the tree end ot' the piston in the indnetion-port, snbstaiitiz'llly as set forth.

The eombimition oli' a llame, the valves, and the transverse slide having` the ports in whieh the valves are hinged, the jointed piston at right angles to the slide, therollers t'or closing' the valves, a crank-shaft having' the radial arm oseillated b'v said slide, the trilr slide l'or holding' and releasing' the valves, the pivoled lever for operating' said trip-slide, said lever being carried by the radial arm, and the stnds with `whjieh said pivoted lever eomes in eontaet, substantially as set Vforth.

lnV testimony of the foregoing l have hereunto snbserihi-l my name in presenee ol two witniisses.

ll EN R Y E. TRUMBLE. lVitnessc JOHN J. TEMPLE, L. N. BURKE. 

